At least a dozen Iraqi civilians have been crushed to death in an attack by Takfiri ISIL terrorists, it has been reported.

The ISIL extremists placed the men on a road close to a government building in the city of Mosul yesterday evening, and then a bulldozer drove back and forth over them, a source told Arabic-language al-Sumaria satellite television network.

The atrocity came a day after ISIL terrorists executed “six former officers of the Second Division of the Iraqi army” following their arrest in Mosul a year ago.

The execution took place in a public square in the city, a source said.

“The officers had been arrested from their homes in Mosul in July last year, and had remained in detention until they were put to death,” the source said.

Last Sunday, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) spokesman in Mosul, Saeed Mamouzini, said the ISIL terrorist group had kidnapped 111 children, aged between 10 to 15 years.

The children were taken to their training camps on the outskirts of Mosul, where they were being forced to undergo training to carry out acts of terror, he said.

Takfiri ISIL militants began their march through Iraqi territory in June 2014. The terrorists took control of Mosul before sweeping through parts of the country’s heartland.